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【2008年阅读Text 3 第3段】
But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height.
【长难句分析图解】
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①Growth, which rarely continues beyond the age of 20, demands calories and nutrients – notably, protein – to feed expanding tissues.
②At the start of the 20th century, under-nutrition and childhood infections got in the way.
③But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height.
④Yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average height – 5′9″ for men, 5′4″ for women – hasn’t really changed since 1960.
参考译文
①在 20 岁后人很少继续长高，长高需要热量和营养，特别是蛋白质，以满足组织增长的需求。
②20 世纪初期，营养不良和儿童传染病盛行。
③但随着饮食和健康的改善，儿童和青少年的身高平均每 20 年增加约 1.5 英寸，这就是被称之为身高增长长期趋势的模式。
④然而根据疾病控制与预防中心的数据(男性 5.9 英尺，女性 5.4 英尺)，从 1960 年以来并没有改变过。
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